Electronic ambient duo Aiming For Enrike release new single

'Slopes' streaming now

Empty Airports LP to be released 20th January via Jansen Records

Photo credits: Photo: Veronica Van Groningen / Edits: Thor Merlin

Maverick ambient electro duo Aiming For Enrike have released their otherworldly new single 'Slopes', from forthcoming new album Empty Airports, which will be released 20th January via Jansen Records.

Stream the single and pre-order the album here: https://orcd.co/afe-slopes

Guitarist Simen Følstad Nilsen says this about 'Slopes': "This track showcases the more melancholic side of the album with a Burial-inspired vibe combined with shoegaze synth sounds, glitchy drum machines and guitars drenched in reverb."

It’s safe to say that Aiming For Enrike’s fame has come mostly thanks to their frenetic, wild and engaging live shows – having toured extensively in USA, India, Japan, Czech Republic, Norway, England and Germany for several years. Recently the duo have performed at the UK's esteemed ArcTanGent Festival, released an acclaimed Audiotree session, and toured with modern prog titans Leprous.

Previously known for noisy musical transformations and frenetic sonic attacks, Empty Airports marks a significant tonal shift for Aiming For Enrike. More electronic, more atmospheric and massive, the new album delves more deeply in the world of ambient than ever before.

A reflection and recognition of the stillness of COVID-life, Empty Airports was recorded during the strange, silent lockdown months of 2020 and 2021. The most spacious of Aiming For Enrike's work so far released, Empty Airports is also the duo's longest record, and their first double album.

Taking influence variously from the likes of Nils Frahm, Burial, Jon Hopkins, Sunn O))), Empty Airports' title touches on the stopped nature of the COVID world, a sense of the post-apocalyptic, and is a tip of the hat to Brian Eno's Music for Airports record.

Another stellar release in the canon of an already well-regarded forward-thinking group, Empty Airports proves beyond doubt that Aiming For Enrike live entirely in their own universe.

More info:
https://www.facebook.com/aimingforenrike/
https://aimingforenrike.bandcamp.com/
https://www.aimingforenrike.com/

Slopes single cover

Tracklisting:

1: Empty Airports pt1

2: Empty Airports pt2

3: Empty Airports pt3

4: The Rats And the Children

5: Feel No Threat/Absent Lovers

6: Slopes

7: The Castle

8: Square Machine

9: System 0

10: Pulse Fragments